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Johnny_P wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:48 am I want an Evo 9. Or an R34 Skyline.

I’d be pretty happy with either.
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D Griff wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:15 am
Johnny_P wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:48 am I want an Evo 9. Or an R34 Skyline.

I’d be pretty happy with either.
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I think my STI is pretty close to an Evo really. Partly why I got it, many reviews stated it’s finally up to Evo level but has a better interior and I figured mitsu dealerships would probably cease to exist. I think I wanted an Evo 9 more... but didn’t let myself check one out.

Skyline because I love JDM stuff. I think my favorite car ever is the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. No way would I ever own one, as those cars are total basket cases now. I’ll never own an R34 either because of the price gouging on them.
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Johnny_P wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:28 am
D Griff wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:15 am

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I think my STI is pretty close to an Evo really. Partly why I got it, many reviews stated it’s finally up to Evo level but has a better interior and I figured mitsu dealerships would probably cease to exist. I think I wanted an Evo 9 more... but didn’t let myself check one out.

Skyline because I love JDM stuff. I think my favorite car ever is the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. No way would I ever own one, as those cars are total basket cases now. I’ll never own an R34 either because of the price gouging on them.
R33 is the sweet spot skyline IMO
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MexicanYarisTK wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:05 am
SAWCE wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2020 12:58 pm Oh wow :jeep: is doing 0% apr right now too
:wat: what are the other brands that are doing it??
I think most brands are doing some sort of 0% deal in the 60-72 month range right now.
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Tarspin wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 2:22 pm
MexicanYarisTK wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:16 am Coincidently Turkey's automotive world has jumped into the bandwagon as well. Just increased their financing interval to 60 months, just yesterday. But that's also due to currency constantly losing value, so it makes people buying cars much easier.
Oh boy, constantly dropping currency is a strong motivator to lock in a new car at today's prices with a set lending rate.

Edit: What are the rates/prices of some popular products we have here?
cars or other things?

For cars. You pay extra taxes (called OTV) based on the displacement of the car, that money alone goes to the government (aka Erdogan). That's upcharged just recently and prices became absurd for that alone. Made me :rage:
Right now, 1.0-1.6 liters (regardless of how much HP, so a previous gen Polo GTI is reasonably priced in that book) have a 50% OTV. Like say a base 1.0 VW Polo 3 banger with a turbo is around 17,000 Euros, then multiply by 0.5 (50 percent) then that's where you'll see the price in Turkey, now 1 Euro is 9.60 turkish liras, a base polo is 242,000 liras ($29,000 usd) in Turkey. Even the highline model Polo is Golf R money in the US (same with Golf)
1.7-1.9 has 130% OTV, so even more expensive (hence why 2.0 are kind of rare).
2.0 and above are 150%, because of that you pay...wait for it...2.5 times more than the car itself if it was Europe. (it was around 120-130 for <2.0 and above just couple months ago)
A 2.0t audi A4 in the US is around $40K, in Turkey it's $90k
https://www.audi.com.tr/tr/web/tr/model ... stesi.html ( <-- here's an example, look at OTV on that, that's a 1.5 Golf highline money)
The government is thinking about axing that OTV off
Some brands also recently started introducing no interest rate financing due to rona and 60 month financing, max was 48 for the last 5 years and 36 months for higher interest rates. You're only allowed to lease a car as long as it is a company car (which few of my friends does), they don't have to pay for gas and can drive anywhere they want without issues.
In 2010, A golf used to be 50k liras, now it's no less than 200k liras. (which is :sad: )
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MexicanYarisTK wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:07 pm
Tarspin wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 2:22 pm

Oh boy, constantly dropping currency is a strong motivator to lock in a new car at today's prices with a set lending rate.

Edit: What are the rates/prices of some popular products we have here?
cars or other things?

For cars. You pay extra taxes (called OTV) based on the displacement of the car, that money alone goes to the government (aka Erdogan). That's upcharged just recently and prices became absurd for that alone. Made me :rage:
Right now, 1.0-1.6 liters (regardless of how much HP, so a previous gen Polo GTI is reasonably priced in that book) have a 50% OTV. Like say a base 1.0 VW Polo 3 banger with a turbo is around 17,000 Euros, then multiply by 0.5 (50 percent) then that's where you'll see the price in Turkey, now 1 Euro is 9.60 turkish liras, a base polo is 242,000 liras ($29,000 usd) in Turkey. Even the highline model Polo is Golf R money in the US (same with Golf)
1.7-1.9 has 130% OTV, so even more expensive (hence why 2.0 are kind of rare).
2.0 and above are 150%, because of that you pay...wait for it...2.5 times more than the car itself if it was Europe. (it was around 120-130 for <2.0 and above just couple months ago)
A 2.0t audi A4 in the US is around $40K, in Turkey it's $90k
https://www.audi.com.tr/tr/web/tr/model ... stesi.html ( <-- here's an example, look at OTV on that, that's a 1.5 Golf highline money)
The government is thinking about axing that OTV off
Some brands also recently started introducing no interest rate financing due to rona and 60 month financing, max was 48 for the last 5 years and 36 months for higher interest rates. You're only allowed to lease a car as long as it is a company car (which few of my friends does), they don't have to pay for gas and can drive anywhere they want without issues.
In 2010, A golf used to be 50k liras, now it's no less than 200k liras. (which is :sad: )
:mindblown:

50% to 150% OTV tax on something that is 2.5x price of the rest of the world is absurd. That place sounds like a financial dumpster fire, fully :nope: out IMO

Thanks for laying it out for me, I appreciate the effort.
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Tarspin wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:37 pm
MexicanYarisTK wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:07 pm

cars or other things?

For cars. You pay extra taxes (called OTV) based on the displacement of the car, that money alone goes to the government (aka Erdogan). That's upcharged just recently and prices became absurd for that alone. Made me :rage:
Right now, 1.0-1.6 liters (regardless of how much HP, so a previous gen Polo GTI is reasonably priced in that book) have a 50% OTV. Like say a base 1.0 VW Polo 3 banger with a turbo is around 17,000 Euros, then multiply by 0.5 (50 percent) then that's where you'll see the price in Turkey, now 1 Euro is 9.60 turkish liras, a base polo is 242,000 liras ($29,000 usd) in Turkey. Even the highline model Polo is Golf R money in the US (same with Golf)
1.7-1.9 has 130% OTV, so even more expensive (hence why 2.0 are kind of rare).
2.0 and above are 150%, because of that you pay...wait for it...2.5 times more than the car itself if it was Europe. (it was around 120-130 for <2.0 and above just couple months ago)
A 2.0t audi A4 in the US is around $40K, in Turkey it's $90k
https://www.audi.com.tr/tr/web/tr/model ... stesi.html ( <-- here's an example, look at OTV on that, that's a 1.5 Golf highline money)
The government is thinking about axing that OTV off
Some brands also recently started introducing no interest rate financing due to rona and 60 month financing, max was 48 for the last 5 years and 36 months for higher interest rates. You're only allowed to lease a car as long as it is a company car (which few of my friends does), they don't have to pay for gas and can drive anywhere they want without issues.
In 2010, A golf used to be 50k liras, now it's no less than 200k liras. (which is :sad: )
:mindblown:

50% to 150% OTV tax on something that is 2.5x price of the rest of the world is absurd. That place sounds like a financial dumpster fire, fully :nope: out IMO

Thanks for laying it out for me, I appreciate the effort.
compared to the Euro union countries, russia, ukraine, US and canada, yes. these OTV increase upcharges that just happened was basically on purpose for people to buy "domestic" cars. Renault, Hyundai, Citroen (only for one model that's made for developing countries, so doesn't exist in Europe), Ford (transit and Transit connect), Fiat (partnered with a Turkish company that doesn't have a modern lineup for almost 2 decades, until 2010 for Iran, Egypt, basically even more shithole countries) has their own factories in Turkey.

Although in Signapore, a Nissan Sentra is around $130k, a Civic is $180k. But the average salary are also higher than Turkey.
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MexicanYarisTK wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:29 pm
Tarspin wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:37 pm
:mindblown:

50% to 150% OTV tax on something that is 2.5x price of the rest of the world is absurd. That place sounds like a financial dumpster fire, fully :nope: out IMO

Thanks for laying it out for me, I appreciate the effort.
compared to the Euro union countries, russia, ukraine, US and canada, yes. these OTV increase upcharges that just happened was basically on purpose for people to buy "domestic" cars. Renault, Hyundai, Citroen (only for one model that's made for developing countries, so doesn't exist in Europe), Ford (transit and Transit connect), Fiat (partnered with a Turkish company that doesn't have a modern lineup for almost 2 decades, until 2010 for Iran, Egypt, basically even more shithole countries) has their own factories in Turkey.

Although in Signapore, a Nissan Sentra is around $130k, a Civic is $180k. But the average salary are also higher than Turkey.
Common place in most countries.
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Is it possible to update the Uconnect 8.4 from the pre apple car play to the apple car play and higher res units?
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CaleDeRoo wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 9:04 am @JP the ultimate jdm dad ride

https://richmonds.com.au/portfolio/1998 ... niversary/
I dig it
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Johnny_P wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:27 pm
CaleDeRoo wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 9:04 am @JP the ultimate jdm dad ride

https://richmonds.com.au/portfolio/1998 ... niversary/
I dig it
Essentially what you got but worse in every way.
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max225 wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:48 pm
Johnny_P wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:27 pm

I dig it
Essentially what you got but worse in every way.
:notwrong: other than the fact that it has more style/wow factor.
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max225 wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:48 pm
Johnny_P wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:27 pm

I dig it
Essentially what you got but worse in every way.
Don’t care. Still want.
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CaleDeRoo wrote: Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:02 pm https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-car ... -blazer-e/

:mindblown:

This is super cool
I really dig it...but battery packaging is going to be a challenge.
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CaleDeRoo wrote: Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:02 pm https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-car ... -blazer-e/

:mindblown:

This is super cool
:jimp:

Those tiny tires :doe: , are those :225: ?
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D Griff wrote: Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:24 pm
CaleDeRoo wrote: Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:02 pm https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-car ... -blazer-e/

:mindblown:

This is super cool
:jimp:

Those tiny tires :doe: , are those :225: ?
Wonder what the range is... prolly about 1/2 of the bolt..
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max225 wrote: Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:34 pm
D Griff wrote: Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:24 pm

:jimp:

Those tiny tires :doe: , are those :225: ?
Wonder what the range is... prolly about 1/2 of the bolt..
I'm sure the tires were done to try to save some range...but yea 1/2 a Bolt at best I'd assume in that heavy boxy thing.

I just think it's cool to see this stuff starting from a big company like GM.
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How would the 4 spd transmission help with range? I have no idea what effect operating RPM has on range or if torque multiplication might help get some back.
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I just got told by a shop that book time for motor mounts on the S4 is 20hrs.


Nah I'll just let the fucking thing fall out instead.
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Triple post but IDC this is hot.

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And now for the perfect Rav4 for JP to street park. The Mitsuoka Buddy

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Look at those chrome bumpers. They look ready to deflect plastic bumper covers all day and night.
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Is that a Rav 4 with some sort of ungodly bodykit from 80s hell ?
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